"Down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soldiers lead Jesus away with them to their guardroom. The night was already nearly over, the fires had sunk down and were covered with ashes, but from the guardroom was still borne the sound of muffled cries, laughter, and invectives. They ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev
... family, formerly numerous here, and in the neighbourhood, holding a respectable position, but now extinct. {175} There are also a number of tombs of the Todd family, respectable small farmers, resident in the parish, from the first notice of a burial, June 24th, 1738, down to recent years. The Tebbuts and Dixons were also resident, as tenants or small owners, for ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter
... tell thee. When I had bid Ian good-bye, I resolved to take a week's holiday in London and as I walked down the Strand, I noticed that every one looked at me, not unkindly but curiously, and when I looked at the men who looked at me, I saw we were different. I went into a barber's first, and had my hair cut like Londoners wear it, short and smart, and not thick and bushy, ...
— An Orkney Maid • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
... Monsieur. I watched them for a great way along the road—there are no trees now, and I could see. Several times she fell; the last time a soldier raised his gun twice, and twice brought it down. Oh, I wanted to help her then, but they laughed ...
— Where the Souls of Men are Calling • Credo Harris
... suddenly high up in the vault, miles and miles away, I saw a little light and thought that a planet had appeared to keep me company. The light began to descend slowly, like a floating flake of fire. Down it sank, and down and down, till it was but just above me, and I perceived that it was shaped like a tongue or fan of flame. At the height of my head from the ground it stopped and stood steady, and by its ghostly ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard
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